To have Mac OS X connect via iSCSI:
http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/how-to-use-iscsi-on-mac-os-x/
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>
> I don't know if this email is even relevant to the list discussion. I will
> leave that conclusion to the smart mail server policy here.
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[Just do not want to be misleading]
I think there is one aspect of the Zhou style is heavily misleading.
And that is how do we deal with ladies.
Personally, I have my opinions about ladies being open and career-minded, but
those are not important.
What is important, would be how should we deal
: "David Dyer-Bennet"
To:
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?
>
> On Thu, January 8, 2009 15:35, Tim wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:43 PM, JZ wrote:
>>>
>>> Can we focus on commercial usage?
&
> "re" == Richard Elling writes:
re> Flash has been around for well over 25 years
there is NOR flash and NAND flash, though. I think NOR is 25 years
old, and MLC and SLC FLASH are both NAND right? NOR and NAND have
completely different behavior and implementation, and even within NAND
On Thu, January 8, 2009 15:35, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:43 PM, JZ wrote:
>>
>> Can we focus on commercial usage?
>> please!
> I dunno about you, but I need somewhere to store that music so I can
> stream
> it throughout the house while I'm drinking that wine ;) A single disk
> wind
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-Original Message-
From: "JZ"
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:52:10
To: ; ; Scott
Laird
Cc: Orvar Korvar;
; Peter Korn
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?
OMG!
what a critical factor I just didn't think about!!!
stupid
Joel Buckley wrote:
>
> Search "http://store.sun.com"; for the item that matches your
> needs and run with it. Sun currently has a promotion on X4150
> Servers... That will easily be able to serve NFS, SunRay,
> etc... to your home.
>
>
Do they come with free ear plugs for the family? :)
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To: "Scott Laird"
Cc: "JZ" ; "Orvar Korvar"
; ; "Peter
Korn"
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?
> Scott Laird wrote:
>> Today? Low-power SSDs are probably less reliable than low-power
Scott Laird wrote:
> Today? Low-power SSDs are probably less reliable than low-power hard
> drives, although they're too new to really know for certain. Given
> the number of problems that vendors have had getting acceptable write
> speeds, I'd be really amazed if they've done any real work on
>
"Scott Laird"
Cc: "Orvar Korvar" ;
; "Peter Korn"
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:50 PM
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> Are you planning to run Solaris on your laptop?
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry Bold®
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Are you planning to run Solaris on your laptop?
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From: "JZ"
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:27:52
To: Scott Laird
Cc: Orvar Korvar;
; Peter Korn
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS
ing would do?
>> big price delta...
>>
>> z at home
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Laird"
>> To: "JZ"
>> Cc: "Toby Thain" ; "Brandon High"
>> ; ; "Peter Korn"
>> ; "Orvar
hain" ; "Brandon High"
> ; ; "Peter Korn"
> ; "Orvar Korvar"
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?
>
>
>> Today? Low-power SSDs are probably less reliable than low-power hard
>&
should I not... OMG!
???!
z, at home don't know how to spend $
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From: "JZ"
To: "Scott Laird"
Cc: "Orvar Korvar" ;
; "Peter Korn"
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris f
Scott Laird"
To: "JZ"
Cc: "Toby Thain" ; "Brandon High"
; ; "Peter Korn"
; "Orvar Korvar"
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?
> Today? Low-power SSDs are probably less
> Thanks!
> z at home
>
>
> - Original Message - From: "Toby Thain"
> To: "JZ"
> Cc: "Scott Laird" ; "Brandon High" ;
> ; "Peter Korn"
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZF
To: "JZ"
Cc: "Scott Laird" ; "Brandon High" ;
; "Peter Korn"
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?
>
> On 7-Jan-09, at 9:43 PM, JZ wrote:
>
>> ok, Scott, that sounded sincere. I
> Cc: ; "Peter Korn"
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:28 PM
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>
>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Brandon High
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Joel Buckley
>>&
Message -
From: Tim
To: JZ
Cc: Scott Laird ; Brandon High ; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org ; Peter Korn
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:43 PM, JZ wrote:
ok, Scott, that sounded
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:43 PM, JZ wrote:
> ok, Scott, that sounded sincere. I am not going to do the pic thing on you.
>
> But do I have to spell this out to you -- somethings are invented not for
> home use?
>
> Cindy, would you want to do ZFS at home, or just having some wine and
> music?
>
>
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 17:12, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
>> The Samsung HD103UJ drives are nice, if you're not using
>> NVidia controllers - there's a bug in either the drives or the
>> controllers that makes them drop drives fairly frequently.
>
> Do you happen to have more details about this proble
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:43 PM, JZ wrote:
> ok, Scott, that sounded sincere. I am not going to do the pic thing on you.
>
> But do I have to spell this out to you -- somethings are invented not for
> home use?
Yeah, I'm sincere, but I've ordered more or less the same type of
hardware for commerci
!
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From: "Scott Laird"
To: "Brandon High"
Cc: ; "Peter Korn"
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Brandon High wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Brandon High wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Joel Buckley wrote:
>> How much is your time worth?
>
> Quite a bit.
>
>> Consider the engineering effort going into every Sun Server.
>> Any system from Sun is more than sufficient for a home server.
>> You wan
To: "Joel Buckley"
Cc: ; "Peter Korn"
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + OpenSolaris for home NAS?
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Joel Buckley wrote:
How much is your time worth?
Quite a bit.
Consider the engineering effort goin
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Joel Buckley wrote:
> How much is your time worth?
Quite a bit.
> Consider the engineering effort going into every Sun Server.
> Any system from Sun is more than sufficient for a home server.
> You want more disks, then buy one with more slots. Done.
A few years
> The Samsung HD103UJ drives are nice, if you're not using
> NVidia controllers - there's a bug in either the drives or the
> controllers that makes them drop drives fairly frequently.
Do you happen to have more details about this problem? Or some
pointers?
Thanks -- Volker
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So I have just finished building something similar to this...
I'm finally replacing my Pentium II 400Mhz fileserver!
My setup is:
Opensolaris 2008.11
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138117
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184
http://www.newegg.c
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Tim wrote:
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>
>
>> >> Decision #2: 1.5TB Seagate vs. 1TB WD (or someone else)
>> The 1.5TB drives have a sketchy reputation as compared to any other
>> Seagate drives. The rumor is that reliability was not high enough for
>> the OEMs to carry them, so that's why
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:45, Joel Buckley wrote:
> Consider the engineering effort going into every Sun Server.
> Any system from Sun is more than sufficient for a home server.
> You want more disks, then buy one with more slots. Done.
In my experience, buying disks (or disk-related things---JBO
On Wed, January 7, 2009 04:29, Peter Korn wrote:
> Decision #4: file system layout
> I'd like to have ZFS root mirrored. Do we simply use a portion of the
existing disks for this, or add two disks just for root? Use USB-2
flash as those 2 disks? And where does swap go?
The default install in
Dude,
How much is your time worth?
Consider the engineering effort going into every Sun Server.
Any system from Sun is more than sufficient for a home server.
You want more disks, then buy one with more slots. Done.
Search "http://store.sun.com"; for the item that matches your
needs and run wit
I'm looking to do the same thing - home NAS with ZFS.
I'm debating several routes/options, and I'd appreciate opinions from folks
here.
My system will primarily be a file & music server, serving CIFS and some NFS as
well as driving multiple concurrent audio streams via SqueezeCenter, and
perha
> "ah" == Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ah> If you want a small system that is pre-built, look at every
ah> possible permutation/combination of the Dell Vostro 200 box.
I guess Dell is backing out of this and a few other flashy bargains:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technolog
IIRC, the 32-bit reference you see is only for the installer, which
doesn't need to be 64-bit. The installer does detect 64-bit hardware
during the install, and behaves accordingly.
Blake
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Peter Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just as a follow up. I went ahe
> If you want a small system that is pre-built, look at
> every possible
> permutation/combination of the Dell Vostro 200 box.
I agree, the Vostro 200 systems are an excellent deal. Update to the latest
BIOS and they will recognize 8GB of RAM.
The ONE problem with them, is that Dell does not en
OpenSolaris + ZFS achieves 120MB/sec read speed with 4 SATA 7200 rpm discs.
440 MB/Sec read speed with 7 SATA discs. 220MB/sec write speed.
2GB/sec write speed with 48 discs (on SUN Thumper x4600).
I have links to websites were Ive read this.
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wow, well done peeps, that was the problem! Request to re-number that bug to
666. Totally evil, and what a waste of time that has caused. Anyway, I have
internet access from the box, which allowed me to easily install SMB which
after a bit of messing around has now allowed me to access the bo
Since you are using the rge driver, you might be getting bit by CR6686415.
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6686415
The symptoms are that some packets work, more likely with small packets
like pings, but large packets might not work. I've also had trouble not
being
able to talk to
I had a problem like that on my laptop that also has an rge interface, ping
worked fine, but ssh and ftp didn't. To get around it I had to add
set ip:dohwcksum = 0
to /etc/system and reboot.
That worked and is worth a try for you :)
Cheers,
Alan
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Thanks for the replies, it seems like I may have to rewind a bit here and fix
some network issues on the solaris box before I can move forward with the OSX
connecting...
As I mentioned, ping between boxes works fine. I can ping my osx box, my router
(192.168.1.1) and my other NAS. But I last n
> "pb" == Peter Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pb> I really need a step-by-step 'how to' to access this box from
pb> my OSX Leopard
What you need for NFS on a laptop is a good automount daemon and a
'umount -f' command that actually does what the man page claims.
The automounter
Just as a follow up. I went ahead with the original hardware purchase, it was
so much cheaper than the alternatives it was hard to resist.
Anyway, OS 2008-05 installed very nicely. Although it mentions 32bit while
booting, so I need to investigate that at some point. The actual hardware
seem
Rob Logan wrote:
> > ECC?
>
> $60 unbuffered 4GB 800MHz DDR2 ECC CL5 DIMM (Kit Of 2)
> http://www.provantage.com/kingston-technology-kvr800d2e5k2-4g~7KIN90H4.htm
Geez, I have to move to the US for cheap hardware. I've paid 120€ for
exactly that 4GB ECC kit (well, I bought two of these, so 240€)
> ECC?
$60 unbuffered 4GB 800MHz DDR2 ECC CL5 DIMM (Kit Of 2)
http://www.provantage.com/kingston-technology-kvr800d2e5k2-4g~7KIN90H4.htm
for Intel 32x0 north bridge like
http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-x7sbe~7SUPM11K.htm
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Al Hopper wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Bob Friesenhahn
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>>>
AMD Athelon/Opteron dual core likely matches or exceeds
Intel quad core for ZFS use due to
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Bob Friesenhahn
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> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
>
>> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>>> AMD Athelon/Opteron dual core likely matches or exceeds
>>> Intel quad core for ZFS use due to a less bottlenecked memory channel.
>>
>> How big
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> AMD Athelon/Opteron dual core likely matches or exceeds
>> Intel quad core for ZFS use due to a less bottlenecked memory channel.
>
> How big is the difference? Does anyone have benchmarking results (maybe even
> when using Z
Out of interest, and reasonably on-topic, can anyone predict
performance comparison (CIFS) between these two setups?
1) Dedicated Windows 2003 Server, Intel hardware SATA RAID controller
(single raid 5 array, 8 disks)
2) OpenSolaris+ZFS+CIFS, 8 drives with a SuperMicro controller
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> AMD Athelon/Opteron dual core likely matches or exceeds
> Intel quad core for ZFS use due to a less bottlenecked memory channel.
How big is the difference? Does anyone have benchmarking results (maybe even
when using ZFS on Solaris 10)?
Martti
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For those of you who wants to build a NAS, this is mandatory reading I think.
Read all comments too.
http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/
I use a P45 mobo, Intel Q9450, ATI4850 and 4 GB RAM. AOC SATA card with 8 Sata
slots. 4 Samsung 500GB drives. Works excellent in a
I just built a homeserver that pulls 62 watts from the plug at idle for
~$700. I had some of the parts lying around but even if you bought
everything at frys you should be able to set yourself up for under 1K for
the next 3-5 years.
Seasonic 80 plus 300 watt power supply
Intel DP35DP motherboard (
Same case and same idea :) I have 2 dampered drives already installed from a
previous project. Another 2 I pulled out to install into a qnap 209. Ideally
I'd return the disks and replace the qnap with this new single ZFS NAS,
although I'm quite fond of the qnap bt client, and can't use all fo
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Peter Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well for a home NAS I'm looking at noise as a big factor. Also for a 24x7
> box, power consumption, that's why the northbridge is putting me off slightly.
That's why I built a full-sized tower using a Lian-Li case with
>You have not described your requirements (low-power ??, low-cost ??).
But I'll contribute some pointers anyway! :)
Well for a home NAS I'm looking at noise as a big factor. Also for a 24x7 box,
power consumption, that's why the northbridge is putting me off slightly.
So far the other solutions
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Peter Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking to buy some new hardware to build a home ZFS based NAS. I know
> ZFS can be quite CPU/mem hungry and I'd appreciate some opinions on the
> following combination:
>
> Intel Essential Series D945GCLF2
> Kingston
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Peter Bridge wrote:
> thanks for all the feedback. Some followup questions:
>
> If OS will see all 4 cores, will it also make use of all 4 cores for
> ZFS. ie is ZFS fully multi threaded?
I am not sure about the ZFS compression code but from what I can see
ZFS is multi-thr
Nvidia 5 series for amd - got good support for the chipset
Intel boards - as ICH9 drivers are in
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oops, I mean 2 cores.
Anyway I'm having second thoughts about this board now because the northbridge
sounds like a power hog and I was planning a passive cooled system. Also I
went through the hardware compatability list and can see what was mentioned
about the lack of SATA card for PCI. So b
Peter Bridge wrote:
> thanks for all the feedback. Some followup questions:
>
> If OS will see all 4 cores, will it also make use of all 4 cores for ZFS. ie
> is ZFS fully multi threaded?
Very much multithreaded just like the rest of the Solaris kernel.
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thanks for all the feedback. Some followup questions:
If OS will see all 4 cores, will it also make use of all 4 cores for ZFS. ie is
ZFS fully multi threaded?
Is there any point to run ZFS over just two 2 disks? without the extra sata
ports I'm thinking I may have to abandon this idea. The
I've been looking at this board myself for the same thing
The blog below is regarding the D945GCLF but looking at the two, it looks like
the
processor is the only thing that is different (single core vs. dual core).
http://blogs.sun.com/PotstickerGuru/entry/solaris_running_on_intel_atom
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It depends on what your doing.
I got a AMD Sempron Processor LE-1100 (1.9Ghz) doing NAS for mythtv and seems
to do ok.
If the board you quote is what your getting I think it is 64bit chip - intel
site says its a Atom 330.
Solaris will should use all its cores/threads - intel have added a load
I'm running ZFS on nevada (b94 and b98) on two machines at home, both
with 4 gig ram. one has a quad core intel core2 w/ ECC ram, the other
has normal RAM and an athlon 64 dual-core low power. both seem to be
working great.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Peter Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
I'm looking to buy some new hardware to build a home ZFS based NAS. I know ZFS
can be quite CPU/mem hungry and I'd appreciate some opinions on the following
combination:
Intel Essential Series D945GCLF2
Kingston ValueRAM DIMM 2GB PC2-5300U CL5 (DDR2-667) (KVR667D2N5/2G)
Firstly, does it sound
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